Many people are more interested in mixing virtual and actual reality than entering an entirely separate metaverse. Smart contact lens maker Mojo Vision falls into the mixed-reality group. They just announced an app that displays Alexa shopping lists within your contact lenses. The time and effort savings are unimaginable. No, really, I can’t imagine any.
Consumers and marketers are eagerly jumping into the metaverse. This Sitecore study finds that one-third of marketers already have metaverse marketing programs and 42% of consumers are present or plan to visit shortly. “Escaping reality” ranks high on their list of reasons, and who could blame them?
TikTok’s new revised privacy policy, which will be live December 2, confirms that EU, UK and Swiss user data will be available to its employees in other countries, including in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and the US for a variety of uses. These include checking algorithmic performance, recommending content to users, and detecting issues with automated accounts. The availability of even limited data to China has been a concern, and the Irish DPO which has jurisdiction over TikTok, has been investigating its data... Read More >
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.